Published: February 19, 2025
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As control was released, they set off with mountains on their backs.
It’s unclear whether the official channels are gradually loosening their grip on the information regarding true martial arts, but recently, there has been an increasing amount of content related to cultivation online, with many topics even being quite sharp.
This time, Chen Chu and the others were allowed to travel by car on their own and were permitted to carry weapons.
Of course, while they could carry weapons, the rule against using them on ordinary people still stands.
Besides the Southern Heaven Martial High, another Second Rank Martial High in the same city also participated in this task, along with five new students from the Third Rank Martial High.
Adding in students from martial high schools in other cities, the influx towards various task point towns could be described as quite overwhelming.
Chen Chu and Luo Fei chose Baishan Town as their task point, which is more than fifty kilometers away from Mist River, with the long Changbai Mountain Range winding right outside the town.
An hour later, in the spacious task hall of the armed forces in Baishan Town, there were students carrying weapons all around.
These students gathered in small groups, all gazing up at the large screen on the front wall, their faces filled with expressions of tension, excitement, and anticipation.
Among them, there were about twenty figures dressed in dark red battle armor, almost all of whom were elite students returning from trials.
Most of them were from Southern Heaven Martial High, with the remaining six from the neighboring Nanshan Second Rank Martial High.
As for the five from the Third Rank Martial High, none had broken through to double heaven, and the number of participants in this cleanup task was the least.
Around two hundred new students from Southern Heaven Martial High chose Baishan Town, and with a few students from neighboring martial highs, the total was just over three hundred.
Most of these students were in the mid to late stages of the first level of heaven, with nearly a hundred in the second level of heaven, and only eleven like Chen Chu made it to the third level of heaven.
Of these, nine were from Southern Heaven Martial High, while the remaining two were from Nanshan Martial High.
Currently, there were over thirty first-year students from Southern Heaven Martial High who had broken through to the third level of heaven, a portion of whom consolidated their breakthroughs after returning from the trials.
Among them, An Fuqing, Li Hao, Lin Xue, and about twenty others had already applied in advance to go to the Exotic Beast Battlefield.
The rest were more cautious, like Chen Chu, preparing to use this cleanup opportunity to continue accumulating strength, intending to go once they became stronger.
“That sawtooth boar task is not bad. It’s a level one mutated beast, primarily attacking by charging and biting, and the active forest is only sixteen kilometers from the town,” one student said.
“If we park the car at the foot of the mountain, we only have to run ten kilometers.”
“Zhang Fei, let’s choose that blue-eyed fox task. That mutated fox isn’t too big and poses a low threat; it’s just a bit agile…”
Compared to Chen Chu and these battlefield veterans, these ordinary new students needed to be much more cautious.
Even when facing a level one mutated beast, they planned to team up in groups of three or four, as they lacked defensive battle armor and had no combat experience.
Li Wenwen and Lu Haitao also formed a small team, looking over at Chen Chu, who was shouldering a battle knife in the center of the hall, and approached him with some anticipation.
“Chen Chu, are you coming with us?”
“No,” Chen Chu shook his head slightly. “Luo Fei and I are targeting the deeper regions of the mountains where the third-level mutated beasts are; you wouldn’t be able to keep up with my speed.”
Given their classmates' relationship, Chen Chu declined rather politely.